Released 18/08/08. Before “Miniatures”, there was Hybrid Kids. Take a collection of classics by musical behemoths The Beatles, Kate Bush, The Sex Pistols, The Righteous Brothers, Brotherhood Of Man and suchlike, and perform them in a style as diametrically opposite to the original as one can imagine…Therein lies the manifesto that brought the world the wonderfully twisted take on pop music that is “Hybrid Kids”.
Being the first album recorded in Fisher’s own Pipe Studios (actually his Notting Hill bedsit, fact fans), “Hybrid Kids” was conceived as a compilation album featuring a variety of spoof 'bands' hailing from the very real but somewhat obscure Peabody (a town in Kansas, USA) – each would perform their own take on a well known number, with wildly unpredictable results. Equally predictably, when the self styled “Collection Of Classic Mutants” was announced and discussed in the press, a large number of hipsters and music buffs believed every word and eagerly anticipated its release…